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President Donald Trump, from left, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attend a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2026, in Arlington, Va.<\/p>\n
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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, listens to State Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, during a campaign event in Lubbock, Texas, Tuesday, May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, smiles at a campaign event in McKinney, Texas, Tuesday, May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump insists a peace deal is close on this 88th day of the Iran war, but Iran on Tuesday denounced U.S. airstrikes as a sign of \u201cbad faith and unreliability\u201d as negotiations continue. Meanwhile, state media in Lebanon reports that Israel has killed 12 more people in another strike. Iran has demanded that any deal must include an end to hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza.<\/p>\n
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In Washington, the president has a medical checkup on his schedule, and the redistricting war also continues \u2014 the Congressional Black Caucus is urging corporate America to get involved to save voting rights, ending a collective retreat during Trump\u2019s second presidency. in Texas, the Trump-backed, scandal-plagued Ken Paxton is favored over Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff election.<\/p>\n
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US stocks rise, oil falls after Trump said Iran talks are \u2018proceeding nicely\u2019<\/p>\n
The price for a barrel of U.S crude oil fell 3.8% to $92.99 on Tuesday after resuming trading following the Memorial Day holiday, and U.S. stocks were catching up to others around the world that climbed after Trump said Iran talks were \u201cproceeding nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite all rose Tuesday to near their all-time highs even though fighting continued in the Mideast and the U.S. military said it struck Iranian missile launch sites and boats placing mines on Monday. Markets have rallied in the past on hopes for a coming end to the war with Iran, only to see the conflict drag on, causing painful inflation around the world.<\/p>\n
Congressional Black Caucus presses US corporations to oppose Republican redistricting push<\/p>\n
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on major U.S. corporations to oppose Republican-led redistricting efforts that seek to eliminate majority-Black U.S. House districts.<\/p>\n
Their letter sent Tuesday urges more than 250 companies to condemn \u201ccoordinated efforts to silence Black voices at the ballot box.\u201d Some had cosigned their own message to Congress five years ago urging lawmakers to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a Democratic proposal to restore and update the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
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That 2021 coalition, Business for Voting Rights, included Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Salesforce, Target, PayPal, Intel and Starbucks.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorporations that have profited from Black consumers, relied on Black workers, and amassed wealth in part from Black communities cannot look away while Black political power is dismantled in plain sight,\u201d the caucus chair, Rep. Yvette Clarke, said in an interview.<\/p>\n
Trump arrives at Walter Reed military hospital for his latest physical<\/p>\n
The White House said Trump would participate in a greeting with service members and hospital staff before he spends hours being examined by a team of doctors.<\/p>\n
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It is the Republican president\u2019s fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office in January 2025, and it comes as the nearly 80-year-old Trump tries to project strength going into November elections that will test his sway with voters.<\/p>\n
The White House says the visit is an annual preventive medical and dental checkup. Trump was last at Walter Reed in October and also had a physical there in April 2025.<\/p>\n
Last July, the White House said he\u2019d been diagnosed with a condition common in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins, causing the swollen ankles seen in some photos of Trump.<\/p>\n
The White House also has blamed handshaking for visible bruising on Trump\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n
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Presidents aren\u2019t required to disclose health information<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no law requiring these disclosures and the degree of transparency varies.<\/p>\n
Presidents for decades have released medical test results to try to reassure the public that they are up to the high-pressure job.<\/p>\n
But the president signs off on what is released, which raises questions about what isn\u2019t being shared.<\/p>\n
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Trump\u2019s past medical reports have been criticized for offering scant detail and including statistics that some medical experts eyed with skepticism.<\/p>\n
It will be several hours before the White House releases any information about Tuesday\u2019s exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump, from left, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attend a ceremony at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32533,145,31231,1939,3309,28282,1967,86199,23681,59373,59371,59372,61261,61262,82,84,83,27,111679,111680,111681],"class_list":["post-309221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-john-cornyn","tag-john-lewis","tag-ken-paxton","tag-lebanon","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-32520-ap-online-other-u-s-government-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas","tag-trump-iran-medical-redistricting-texas","tag-walter-reed","tag-yvette-clarke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}